Tourism Vancouver’s DOV Facebook Fake? Yesterday I pointed to a good post offering a guide to Facebook for journalists. Coincidentally, yesterday also produced this local post that serves as a potential warning about taking Facebook at face value. At issue is a number of suspicious new members of a Facebook group. The need for verification is in force when reporting through/on Facebook.

Metro US for sale. Last year’s loss was over $10m. It appears as though Metro may be retrenching to focus on countries where money is being made.

Go all guerrilla on ‘em. Ron Sylvester: “Dare to take the guerrilla challenge: Shoot a video on your cell phone, or your point-and-shoot, and pick up the audio separately on your digital recorder, using a microphone. Then find someone who has a good editing software, such as Premier Elements or Final Cut Express and try to synch it all together.” Short version: lack of high-price equipment is no reason not to leap in.

Keep an eye on the low end. We need to be paying attention to the slew of (and interest in) sub-$500 “toy” computers, says Steve Yelvington. “But the disruptive potential of these ultraportable Linux laptops isn’t limited to technology companies. Textbook publishing, entertainment broadcasting, record companies and government-controlled mass media all around the world are going to be upended.”

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